Peter Manfredonia is a 23 year old University of Connecticut student who is wanted in connection with two murders, a brutal assault, and an invasion of the house in which several weapons were stolen.

A manhunt is underway for the college student suspected of killing two people in the three-day rampage.

Peter is a native of the Sandy Hook section of Newtown, Connecticut, and graduated from Newtown High School (Connecticut) in 2015. He has been a student at University of Connecticut since then. He was initially set to graduate from University of Connecticut in 2019, but did not.

He is a student in UConn’s joint School of Engineering/School of Business MEM (Management and Engineering for Management) program, he is an honors student studying mechanical engineering.

Manfredonia, in the past raised money for anti-gun violence charities .

Manfredonia was a student at Newtown High School (Connecticut) in 2012 when 20 students and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in his hometown. Since then, he has been active in raising money and awareness for anti-gun-violence groups, his social media pages show.

Manfredonia, who played football at Newtown High School, said he was the marketing coordinator for Dream Ride, a Cheshire-based nonprofit.

Manfredonia wrote he, “organized, developed and oversaw a marketing campaign over multiple online platforms for the Hometown Foundation, worked with the Dream Ride charity, raising money to benefit the Special Olympics and CT Law Enforcement.”

In 2019, he posted a fundraising Facebook poster saying he was participating in the 34th Annual Dave Parcells Madison Triathlon, “to raise awareness for multiple contemporary social/environmental issues".

He stated that money raised during the event would support Sandy Hook promise (Gun control after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting) and a foundation set up in honor of one of the children killed in the shooting, along with Connecticut Children’s Hospital, the Environmental Defense Fund, Planned Parenthood, the World Wildlife Fund, Students for a Free Tibet, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Brain Foundation.

Manfredonia has worked as a financial operations analyst at Bozzuto’s in Cheshire since 2016. He has assessed multiple positions as assistant to the Chief Financial Officer of Bozzuto’s Inc, one of the North East largest wholesale distributors.

He has also Partook in negotiations with multiple high interest clients and partners.

He is a Project designer for mobile application with the objective of expanding consumer interest in both online market experience and in-store experience.”

He has also worked as a doorman at Ted’s Restaurant in Storrs, Connecticut since 2017, and was once a bouncer at Huskies Restaurant & Bar, also in Storrs, from 2015 to 2017.

He is wanted in connection to two homicides, a brutal assault and a home invasion in which several guns were stolen.

"Manfredonia, of Sandy Hook, is a suspect in a Friday, May 22, 2020 murder and attack on Mirtl Road in Willington, Connecticut, along with a killing in Derby during an ongoing three-day rampage", state police said in a press release.

Police were searching for him in the area of Derby and Seymour on Sunday, May 24, but to no avail since he was no longer believed to be still in the area.

He did not know the victims in the Willington Assault and attacked them after they offered to give him a ride to where his motorcycle was parked.

The victim that who was killed was identified as Ted Demers a 62 year old woodworker.

Demers wife, Cynthia, told the Hartford Courant her husband and the other man offered to help Manfredonia when they saw him walking on the road.

He said he needed a ride back to where he had parked his motorcycle, she told the newspaper.

Cynthia Demers told the Courant, “It could have been anybody who offered him a ride.

It could have been any of my neighbors’ husbands.

It just happened to be mine.”

She said five minutes after her husband drove away with Manfredonia on a four-wheeler, a neighbor drove up to the house and told her there had been an awful accident, according to the Courant.

Police responded and found two victims and immediately began CPR.

State Police spokesman Trooper Josue Dorelus told reporters the attack was “brutal.”

Both victims were taken to the hospital, where Demers died.

The second victim, described as an elderly neighbor of the Demers, suffered injuries considered to be “extremely serious and potentially life threatening.

Manfredonia was seen leaving the scene of the attacks in Willington on a red motorcycle, but police later found the bike abandoned.

Police issued an alert on Saturday, about 5:30 p.m., identifying him as a suspect in the slaying and assault, stole guns & a car from a home overnight & killed a man at a home in Derby

After the attacks on Mirtl Road in Willington, Manfredonia is believed to have broken into a home on Turnpike Road in Willington Saturday night while at least one person was home.

According to police, Manfredonia is believed to have stolen shotguns and a pistol from the house during the home invasion.

He also stole a truck, state police said.

“The homeowner was held against his will.

The suspect that we know from Willington took supplies to include food and the victim’s truck,” Trooper First Class Christine Jeltema, the state police public information officer stated.

Firearms were taken from the home.

The victim on Turnpike Road was not injured and he refused treatment at the scene.

The suspect then took the victim’s truck, drove it down to Derby where it was located near Osbornedale State Park.”

The truck taken from the Willington home was found crashed and abandoned in Derby about 6:45 a.m. Sunday on Hawthorne Avenue at Cullens Hill Road. It is not known when exactly the crash occurred. Police began searching the area of Osbornedale State Park in Seymour and Derby Sunday morning after suspecting he was possibly there. The park was closed down. But by Sunday afternoon, authorities in both towns said he was not located. The search included the area of Great Hill Road and Roosevelt Drive, also known as Route 34.